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# 8  
Old 03-21-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
awk again Smilie
Code:
awk '{FS=OFS=":"}/brownj/{$2="STRING_"$2}1' shadow

Hi, Dan.

The code doesn't work for my case, the same problem I met before with my code. It seems that I cannot pass any variable to awk and sed.

@general:

Is there anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thanks for your time in advance

-Keyang
# 9  
Old 03-21-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by daikeyang
Hi, Dan.

The code doesn't work for my case, the same problem I met before with my code. It seems that I cannot pass any variable to awk and sed.

@general:

Is there anybody know how to solve this problem?

Thanks for your time in advance

-Keyang
Code:
sed "s/^$user:/$user:$string/" shadow

Code:
awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS=":"}$1 == usr {$2=str}1' usr="${user}" str="${string}" shadow

# 10  
Old 03-21-2009
Hi, Vgersh99.

Thank you very much for your reply!

-Keyang
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